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  • The Final Stronghold
    Martin Hicks
    It is the summer of 1853 and Commander James Rutherford leaves Calcutta once more to renew his campaign against organised Oriental piracy. The principal pirate leader Liang Ziu is dead, but Rutherford obtains intelligence that his criminal organisation continues to operate from a heavily fortified base, secure from conventional attack. Beset anew by intrigue and treachery, Ruth...
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  • The Trail of the Scorpion
    Martin Hicks
    It is the autumn of 1852 and the British warship Spartan, commanded by James Rutherford, continues her mission for the East India Company, to destroy a criminal consortium led by the Scorpion, a Chinese criminal named Liang Ziu, who controls an alliance of ruthless pirates, complicit local rulers and corrupt western traders.Attack is followed by counter-attack, including an att...
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  • An Independent Command
    Martin Hicks
    When Lieutenant James Rutherford of the Honourable East India Company is summoned to Government House in Calcutta, he has no inkling of what awaits him there.  To his great surprise, he is offered command of the Spartan, a newly converted steam warship, receiving orders to proceed to sea to hunt a Chinese pirate, but, though those orders appear straightforward enough, they init...
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  • The Turn of Fate
    Martin Hicks
    It is the autumn of 1864 and the Confederate raider Palmetto is in Far Eastern waters, where an encounter with Malay pirates and an attack by hostile islanders have left her seriously undermanned.Thomas Grover, Palmetto’s captain, must continue to elude the US warships hunting for his ship, while somehow finding a way of recruiting replacements for his crew. Failure to accompli...
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  • Nothing Without Honour
    Martin Hicks
    It is the spring of 1864 and the Confederate raider Palmetto is off the Philippines, pursuing her campaign against US shipping. For her captain, Thomas Grover there is much to consider, for with the ship’s previously sustained engine damage not fully repaired, he learns that these seas are now patrolled by a new Union warship that vastly overmatches his own ship. As the war tur...
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  • An Instrument of War
    Martin Hicks
    It is August 1863 and the Confederate Navy Cruiser Palmetto escapes from Charleston harbour to resume her career as a raider, hunting the shipping of the United States.  The succeeding months see her range the Atlantic Ocean before facing a wild passage of Cape Horn, as her Captain Thomas Grover steers his ship for the Orient, seeking ever more victims in his mission to cripple...
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  • Palmetto
    Martin Hicks
    It is 1861 and Thomas Grover has resigned from the US Navy to go with his native state of South Carolina which has left the Union. For two years his career in the new Confederate Navy is tedious and unrewarding. He is posted to Britain as a naval attaché, again denied his wish for active service, until he is transferred to Liverpool where he is offered command of a new warship....
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  • Bond of Blood
    Martin Hicks
    Bond of Blood tells the story of two Irish brothers, each of whom makes the life-changing journey to the new world as the second half of the 19th century draws on. Thomas and Michael Casey are linked by blood, but find themselves on opposite sides of the US Civil War conflict.Martin Hicks lives in Fraserburgh, Scotland and began writing after a career in education. He has publi...
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  • The Bitterest Enemy
    Martin Hicks
    It is the late summer of 1863 and the third year of the war in North America. In the wake of the defeat at Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee has returned, with his Confederate army, to Virginia. But a further crisis to the west, in the Tennessee theatre of the war, compels the general to detach a part of his army, to journey west to north Georgia in order to reinforce the beleaguered ...
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  • Mirage of Victory
    Martin Hicks
    It is May of 1863 and the Civil War in North America has entered its third year. Facing a range of enemy threats, southern commander General Robert E. Lee proposes an invasion of the northern states to supply his army, relieve pressure on other imperilled fronts and to seek decisive victory on enemy territory that could end the war. Irish immigrant Daniel Ryan serves with his c...
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  • The Pain of My Happiness
    Martin Hicks
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  • The Rappahannock Line
    Martin Hicks
    The Rappahannock Line continues the story of Irish immigrant Daniel Ryan who serves in Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. As the year 1862 draws to its close, the powerful Union army gathers its strength on the Rappahannock River in Virginia to renew its advance on the Confederate capital. Lee’s army confronts it there bringing on a further bloody collision....
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  • Hard Passage North
    Martin Hicks
    HARD PASSAGE NORTH continues the story of Irish immigrant Daniel Ryan, who has left his adopted Georgia home to serve in Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. It is the summer of 1862 and, following the campaign to save their capital city of Richmond, Lee and his men are moving north to confront the threat posed by the Union army of General John Pope. The story...
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  • A Gathering of Soldiers
    Martin Hicks
    A Gathering of Soldiers relates the story of Daniel Ryan, an Irish immigrant who has begun a new life in Georgia just as the events leading up to the momentous civil war in America have begun to unfold. The book describes his experiences upon enlisting with a group of his peers, in a north Georgia militia company, following Abraham Lincoln’s first summons for troops to invade t...
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  • Rescue at Pine Ridge
    Erich Martin Hicks
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  • Extemporaneous Speaking (1912)
    Paul Martin Pearson / Philip Marshall Hicks
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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  • A Deepening Twilight
    Martin Hicks
    A Deepening Twilight, the sequel to 'A Season for Killing,' continues thestory of Daniel Ryan, an Irish immigrant serving in Robert E. Lee’s confederateArmy of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. The novel relatesRyan’s experiences in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, and in the trenches aroundRichmond, during the closing months of the war. As the army and the south si...
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  • A Season for Killing
    Martin Hicks
    'A Season for Killing' is told from the perspective of Daniel Ryan, a corporal in Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Virginia in 1864 during the American Civil War, as the brutal campaign in the spring and summer of that year unfolds. Ryan, an Irish immigrant in a Georgian brigade, serves heroically in a succession of battles as the Confederate Army is forced back through Vir...
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